... BUF) put him beyond the pale. This, according to Skidelsky, was little short of a tragedy because it deprived the country of the services of a man of immense talent and ability. Skidelsky is considerably more critical of Mosley for wasting his talent than he is of him for actually donning the blackshirt and allying himself with Mussolini and Hitler. Indeed, at times he seems to regard him as more of an English eccentric than a real fascist. Even when it comes to Mosley's embrace of anti-Semitism, Skidelsky quite incredibly argues that British Jews were at least partly responsible for this themselves because of their hostile reaction to his fascism! Most hilariously, Skidelsky actually argues that, ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 52) Winter 2006/7 Last| Contents| Next Issue 52 Feedback From Scott Newton I don't agree with the Bassett – Matthews line( 'War and peace plots', Lobster 51) on (i) Chamberlain's flight to see Hitler in the Munich crisis (it was to avert a war, not a coup) and (ii) Philby's criminal responsibility for prolonging World War Two. The latter point credits far too much influence to one individual. The fact was that the German peace plotters were not trusted by Churchill and Eden, let alone by people like Philby. The Canaris group, as Matthews shows, did not offer ...

... truth is established by irrefutable and independent evidence...'. No problem in this instance as 'the evidence of the Prime Minister and the senior officials was strong and was consistent with the surrounding circumstances.' Brownshirt Windsors? Our own royal family occasionally flits through the pages of Jonathan Petropoulos's exhaustive survey of the German aristocracy's involvement with the Hitler Gang, Royals and the Reich: the Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). In particular, Anthony Blunt's post-war mission to Schloss Friedrichshof on behalf of the royal family is examined in some detail (pp.337-344), with the author concluding that he was under instructions to look out for documents ...

... very well researched biography of one of the great enigmatic figures of the spy world in the 30s and 40s. The author, former foreign correspondent of The Times in Berlin and Prague, provides much information on the complicated diplomacy of the 1930s and 40s as well as some additional information on the activities of the internal resistance within Germany to Adolf Hitler and the supporters of the movement for a united Europe. The best parts of the book cover the major disaster of British foreign policy decision making in the twentieth century – the Munich agreement in 1938 – and the very under reported but considerable peace manoeuvres between August 1942 and September 1943. Despite a background which was quite similar to many ...

... the war some of the Nazis' leading collaborators, such as Petain in France, Admiral Horthy in Hungary and Anton Pavelic in Croatia, attempted to remodel politics and economics in their countries on authoritarian, anti-Communist and anti-materialist lines. In France 'Work, Family, Country' replaced 'Liberty, Equality and Fraternity'. With the collapse of the Hitler regime these structures also fell and were replaced by leftist regimes in which the Communists either predominated (as in eastern Europe) or held ministerial office (as in France). In Italy the well-organised Communist Party, capitalising on its role in leading partisan activity against the Germans after 1943, threatened to win power at the ballot box. ...

... communism, against gambling, prostitution and narcotics. They remain central to American politics in the struggle against social liberalism at home and international terrorism overseas. The Family The Depression in America in the 1930s and Roosevelt's attempts to address it through state intervention in the economy created enormous anxiety in sections of the business community. Famously the establishment media praised Hitler and Mussolini in the most fulsome terms. This admiration was widely shared by business leaders. A small group of industrialists even plotted a coup against Roosevelt that would have established a Major General from the Marines, Smedley Butler, as a pro-business dictator. One of the most important and long-lasting legacies of this anxiety about the forces being unleashed ...

... the National Front out of Belfast in 1989 and the UVF did likewise with Combat 18 in 1993. That said, Johnnie Adair was a member of the National Front and Nazi rock band, Offensive Weapons, before ever he joined the UDA in 1989; and McDonald and Cusack add that Rathcoole UDA commander John Gregg was an admirer of Adolf Hitler. See Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald, UDA: Inside the Heart of Loyalist Terror (Penguin, 2004). UVF members have also been involved in race attacks on Sandy Row despite the opposition of the Progressive Unionist Party to such attacks. 11 Peter Taylor, 'States of Terror', BBC, 1990. According to one rumour ...

... Kent had also requested a move to the US Embassy in Berlin and, one presumes, would have taken his collection of secret diplomatic correspondence with him had he been allowed to take up this position.( [i]) The Right Club In March 1940 Kent showed some of his cables to Captain Ramsay MP – the foremost admirer of Hitler in the House of Commons – and to Anna Wolkoff, a member of Ramsay's cranky Right Club. Ramsay said he wanted to show the material to Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister. It is not clear that he did so. However, a little while later, in an unrelated episode, Wolkoff was asked by an agent MI5 ...

... Glasgow Rangers match in 2002, after Grogg resisted Daft Dog's attempt to unite the North and West Belfast UDA – thereby threatening Grogg's power base. Already, Grogg had executed some of his closest confederates on trumped-up charges of financial impropriety to consolidate his position, modelling his methods on those of Saddam Hussein. He was also an admirer of Adolf Hitler. Grogg was travelling in a mini cab owned by Jock's Cabs, a UDA controlled taxi firm in Rathcoole, when he was hit. Jock's Cabs are now nicknamed 'unlucky cabs' in Rathcoole. 9. Haughey once described Ahern as the most devious of his generation of Fianna Fail leaders and meant it as a compliment. 10. ...

... one of those embarrassing documents that is pregnant with historical meaning yet not what any of the victors of 1945 liked to see hawked around in the years to come. The full Manifesto can be found as Appendix IV of Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt's mildly self-serving memoir of his time as German liaison officer with the Vlasov Movement during the war, Against Stalin& Hitler, 1941-1945 (translated from the German and appearing in English in the same year, 1970). The context of the Prague Manifesto is recounted on pages 215 – 221. [5] There are signs in a variety of sources that Nazi strategists, faced with impending collapse in late 1944, became concerned that they had been too ...